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I feel a lot of sympathy for Hisao through the VN. These are some seriously messed-up girls he's trying to work things out with, and he's trying to recover from some pretty heavy trauma himself. Not only did he just find out he has a rather life-shortening illness, but he went though 4 months of nea...

My feelings about that scene was that Misha was essentially saying "For God's sake Hisao, tell me that you want me in your life and you'd be upset if I just up and died". And Hisao ... even in the good ending his response is pretty minimal. It was the one point in the VN where I was genuin...

She doesn't specifically verbally entertain the notion of jumping but she does lean heavily on the fence while letting fly with "Things would be better if I were dead" rhetoric. There's some pretty plain telegraphing of suicidal thought going on, and Hisao doesn't really have much referen...

But seriously: I still run with the idea that she either died or bailed on the family, directly resulting in Jigoro losing his shit. Because he can't just be that way . I'm agreeing with you. For Mayoi never to get mentioned once in the whole VN is pretty weird, considering how family-oriented Lill...

One last thought on this. Mayoi's name may be a substantial clue. It doesn't seem to be a standard Japanese name, and as near as I can tell translates as "stray" (anybody who actually knows Japanese is more than welcome to step in, of course). This indicates that she's still around, but ha...

And now onto the rampant and unjustified speculation. Mayoi has three buttocks. First off, a bit of pure headcanon I have about Shizune's dad. He's a consultant, right? So what is he a consultant of? Do you remember the Men's Movement, Robert Bly, Iron John and all that? He's that kind of thing, exc...

On a completely different note, I've been thinking of what it means in terms of the story for Misha not having noticeable disabilities. The story function of the disabilities is to show that each of the women are very strong, capable and resourceful. Misha doesn't get that. That's not to say that Mi...

So, it sounds like we've resolved that there can't be any real resolution, but it does make sense to have plausible explanations of what Misha was doing in Yamaku. I think any explanation has to respect the few things we really know about the character: 1) Misha doesn't have any symptoms in the VN 2...

We've got one real fact about Shizune's mom, and that is that she's completely absent from the story. That's very unusual; even Lilly's parents get passing mention. I just started thinking about what this means for Shizune's story and character. Fair warning: I just now thought of this approach so I...

This Misha's disability thing is really annoying, y'know? I've come around to Mirage's point of view that there is no support for any physical disability for Misha in the VN. I could make a case for clinical depression (as opposed to teenage angst because she's been jilted) but there are multiple in...

Throughout most of the VN, Misha is maintaining a falsely cheerful persona while hiding a lot of pain inside. That kind of sophisticated social interaction completely contradicts Asperger's. So, I'm afraid that diagnosis is right out. It seems like Misha's outwards persona had a lot of AS characteri...

In the VN, I don't think we ever find out what made Hanako's birthday so bad. Lots of fanon, no canon. Has there ever been word-of-god about what made Hanako's birthday so traumatic?

For the young'ns out there, FATAL is the worst RPG ever written. Not only is the worst, it won so hard the category was closed for all time. Because if there is ever even a contender for the title, WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT. You might be able to find a copy out there on the web, but I advise ag...

If one wanted to be painfully PoPoMo, one could suggest producing a VN about producing VNs, but serious contemplation of that project would likely drive Cthulhu into therapy. It's funny you should say that, Anonymous22, NicolArmarfi, delta and climatic actually did make a visual novel about making ...

She died of an overdose of blood thinners? That's a *really* nasty way to go. Coumadin is rat poison. You start bleeding from random parts of your body. Not pretty. And blood thinners actually help prevent stroke. http://www.strokecenter.org/patients/stroke-treatment/stroke-medications/anticoagulant...